About CTE

Career Technical Education

Prepare for new career opportunities! You can earn a career certificate in as little as six months and gain upgraded job skills, hands-on, quality training, and higher wages. Our tuition-free career technical education programs are open to adults (18+). Classes are offered during the day and evening at three NOCE Centers in Anaheim, Cypress, and Fullerton.

5 Advantages to Earning a Career Certificate

Quality Training with No Enrollment Fee – Our CTE programs are designed to provide you with the skills needed to immediately enter the workforce in your chosen profession. The best part: most CTE classes are tuition-free!

Employment and Higher Wages – Completing higher education milestones leads to employment and earning higher wages. Increase your employability with a career certificate and provide a higher standard of living for your family.

Expert Faculty – Our CTE faculty work or have worked in the field specific to the subject they are teaching. This gives you the opportunity to learn the latest industry standards and trends.

Work While Attending College – Earning a career certificate and getting a job will allow you to pay for the next step in your educational journey: college! Obtaining a college degree does not have to be an unattainable dream. Our counselors can help you create a Student Educational Plan to meet your goals at NOCE and beyond.

Self-pride – Learning a new trade, particularly while juggling other responsibilities, can be difficult. It takes desire and hard work; but once accomplished, your education and gained skills will create a pathway to your future.

Classes and Programs

Administrative Assistant Certificate

Do you have strong interpersonal and customer service skills? Are you detail-oriented, organized, and proficient in keyboarding and written and oral communication? Become an administrative assistant!

Administrative assistants are responsible for a variety of administrative and clerical duties necessary to run an organization efficiently. As an administrative assistant, you serve as an information manager for an office, schedule meetings and appointments, organize and maintain files, manage projects, conduct research, and provide information via several communication methods. Additional work responsibilities include using a computer to create spreadsheets, compose correspondences, and prepare reports, documents, and presentations using graphics.

Early Childhood Education Certificate

Do you enjoy being around children and planning daily activities and experiences that develop intellectual and motor skills, build relationships, and introduce children to the world that surrounds them? Are you full of energy, attentive, flexible, and supportive? Become an early childhood educator!

Early childhood educators play a vital role in the development of children in their care. They instruct children through activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth. What children learn and experience during their early years can shape their views of themselves and their surroundings. It can also have a profound effect on later successes in school, work, and in their personal lives. As an early childhood educator, you are eligible to gain employment in the private sector at pre-school facilities, church pre-schools, Montessori, and after-school care.

Electrical Trainee Certificate

The Electrical Trainee Certificate Program prepares students to work in an entry-level position in the construction industry assisting with the electrical installation and repair of electrical wiring in buildings. As an electrical trainee student, you will learn safety skills, construction math, tools and materials handling, electrical theory, code requirements, and application for residential, commercial and industrial wiring, prints and specifications.

Fundamental Computer Concepts and Skills Certificate

The Fundamental Computer Concepts and Skills Certificate Program will prepare you to work in an entry-level office environment performing tasks such as basic data entry, Word processing, research utilizing the Internet, and basic computer operation suitable for working in a business setting. Students completing this certificate program will have the basic computer skills to be successful in an entry-level clerk or general office support position.

Funeral Service Assistant Certificate

Are you a good listener and sensitive to the feelings of others? Do you enjoy comforting those in need? Are your interpersonal and communication skills exceptional? Become a funeral assistant!

Funeral service assistants are responsible for a variety of tasks during funerals to ensure that services run smoothly and as planned. Some job duties include placing the casket in the parlor or chapel prior to services, arranging floral offerings or lights around the casket, directing or escorting mourners, closing the casket, and issuing and storing funeral equipment. The Funeral Service Assistant Certificate Program introduces you to the theoretical and practical knowledge required for professional licensure and helps you determine your level of interest in mortuary science and the industry.

Management Certificate

Are you a leader? Do you enjoy problem-solving and decision-making? Do you excel at project management? Prepare for a promotion with the Management Certificate Program!

The Management Certificate Program prepares you for first-line supervisory or management positions in the workforce. In this program, you will learn management principles including leadership development, business law, finance, negotiations, and marketing.

Medical Assistant Certificate

Do you have an interest in the health industry? Are you passionate about helping others and providing quality customer service? Do you work well under pressure and have the ability to multitask? Become a medical assistant!

Medical assistants are multi-skilled, allied health workers who work primarily in ambulatory settings such as medical offices and clinics. Medical assistants function as members of the health care delivery team and perform routine administrative and/or clinical procedures to keep front and back office settings running smoothly. Medical assistants carry out administrative duties such as scheduling, reception, insurance monitoring, record maintenance, and bookkeeping. As assistants in the clinical setting, you take vital signs, prepare exam rooms, and collect patient data.

Office Application Essentials Certificate

The Office Application Essentials Certificate Program will prepare you for a professional level office environment in administrative work. Students completing this certificate program will be successful in a mid-level office setting requiring stronger knowledge of spreadsheet, database, and planning at an administrative support level.

Pharmacy Technician Certificate

Do you possess good reasoning abilities and have sufficient math skills to perform pharmaceutical calculations? Do you enjoy providing excellent customer service and work well under pressure? Become a pharmacy technician!

Pharmacy technicians help pharmacists to prepare and dispense medications, measure pharmaceutical dosages, fill bottles according to prescriptions and type labels for bottles, keep records of medications dispensed, compute charges and enter data in a computer, receive and store incoming supplies, and count stock to maintain inventory records. As a pharmacy technician, you also prepare compounds, using sterile techniques, under the supervision of a pharmacist and clean equipment and sterilize glassware according to prescribed methods.

Physical Therapy Aide

Our Physical Therapy Aide class equips the motivated student to function safely and efficiently as a physical therapy aide or restorative aide in a hospital, convalescent hospital, or home setting. A certificate of completion is granted at the end of the course to students meeting all Physical Therapy Aide requirements.

Quality Assurance Management for Medical Devices Certificate

The Quality Assurance Management for Medical Devices Certificate Program provides you with the skills required for positions in the medical device industry such as quality assurance specialist, quality compliance specialist, and quality systems auditor. Topics covered include regulatory agencies and laws pertaining to the medical device industry, introduction to the medical device industry and trends in the field, document control and database management, quality assurance concepts for medical device manufacturing, technical writing, quality audit process, and employability skills.